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... hang on
for months, long after their ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
This may hang on for months,
long after their mother has accepted dad's new way
of living and thinking.
2.
... hang on
to it.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
But you had better hang on
to it.
3.
... hang on
to some of them.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
But even these people, if
they construct a list of
still milder defects, will be obliged to admit that they prefer to hang on to some of
them.
4.
... hang together,
else most of us will ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We alcoholics see that we
must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.
5.
... hang together
or die separately.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first
disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.
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